Gustavo A. Araújo R.
Gustavo A. Araújo R. is a PhD candidate in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University (expected December 2026), where he is a graduate researcher at the John A. Blume Earthquake Engineering Center. He combines experimental testing, nonlinear finite-element modeling, and GPU-accelerated simulation to study reinforced concrete and low-damage mass timber–steel structural systems.
Prior to Stanford, he completed an MS in Wood Science at Oregon State University and MS and BS degrees in Civil Engineering at Universidad del Norte in Colombia. His work includes full-scale testing of mass timber spine systems with the TallWood Design Institute, shake-table experiments on a six-story building at UC San Diego, nonlinear modeling of thin reinforced concrete walls, and post-earthquake building performance assessment. He has served in leadership roles with the EERI Student Leadership Council, including Co-President (2024–2025), Lead Seismic Design Competition Chair (2023–2024), and SDC Chair (2022–2023).
Research interests:
- Nonlinear finite-element analysis
- GPU-accelerated computing
- Earthquake engineering and seismic risk
- Mass timber and low-damage structural systems
- Reinforced concrete
News
May 31, 2026: Website launched — research notes, OpenSeesPy examples, and project updates will be posted in Posts.
May 28, 2026: Lightning talk at the 2026 NHERI Computational Symposium — Enabling Higher-Resolution Nonlinear Structural Analysis Through GPU-Accelerated Solvers (session abstract, talk page).
2026 NHERI Computational Symposium, Hearst Memorial Mining Building, UC Berkeley — Innovation Through Collaboration (OpenSees and GPU-accelerated Python solvers). See the talk page.
September 2025 – June 2026: Shah Fellowship on Catastrophic Risk, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University.
September 2025: Participated in the EERI Learning From Earthquakes Travel Study in Mexico City.
July 2025: Journal article on experimental and numerical simulation of a three-story mass timber building with pivoting walls published in Journal of Structural Engineering, 151(7) (doi:10.1061/JSENDH.STENG-13781).
Figure 3, Journal of Structural Engineering 151(7) (doi:10.1061/JSENDH.STENG-13781; ResearchGate) — pivoting-wall specimen (project page).
Selected publications
See the full list on Publications or Google Scholar.
Kontra, S., A. R. Barbosa, A. Sinha, S. Pryor, R. B. Zimmerman, B. G. Simpson, J. W. van de Lindt, S. Pei, G. A. Araújo R., M. McBain, L. Pieroni, P. Mishra, P. A. Uarac, T. Field, and F. Freddi (2026). Mass timber wall splice connection using glued-in rods: Design methodology, implementation, and shake-table testing in a six-story building. Engineering Structures, 361, 122859.
Araújo R., G. A., B. G. Simpson, A. R. Barbosa, L. Pieroni, T. X. Ho, G. F. Orozco O., B. T. Miyamoto, and A. Sinha (2025). Experimental and Numerical Simulation of a Three-Story Mass Timber Building with a Pivoting Wall and Buckling-Restrained Boundary Elements. Journal of Structural Engineering, 151(7).
Arteta, C. A., G. A. Araújo, A. M. Torregroza, A. F. Martínez, and Y. Lu (2019). Hybrid Approach for Simulating Shear–Flexure Interaction in RC Walls with Nonlinear Truss and Fiber Models. Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, 17(12), 6437–6462.
Arteta, C. A., J. Carrillo, J. Archbold, D. Gaspar, C. Pajaro, G. Araújo, et al. (2019). Response of Mid-Rise Reinforced Concrete Frame Buildings to the 2017 Puebla Earthquake. Earthquake Spectra, 35(4), 1763–1793.